Machine for inserting drawer-stops.



N0- 87'7,166 D PATBNTED JAN. 21, 1908.

H. H. BORGERDING.

MACHINE FOR INSBRTING DRAWER STOPS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN .29, 1907.

@M/mewm H.H.Borgerding n m k HERMAN H. BORGERDING, OF NEW ALBANY, INDIANA.

MACHINE FOR INSERTING DRAWER-STOPS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 21, 1908.

Application filed January 29, 1907. Serial No. 354.738-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERMAN H. BORGER- DING, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Albany, in the county of Floyd and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Inserting Drawer-Stops; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and eXact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has relation to new and useful improvements in machines for inserting drawer stops in straight or swell front drawers and consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts illustrated in the drawings and set forth in the specification and claims hereunto ap-..

pended.

In the accompanying drawings,--Figure 1 is a perspective view of a machine embodying my invention, Fig. 2 is a cross sectional view of the magazine and magazine head, on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrow, and Fig. 3 .is a detail top plan view of the horizontal guide rod, magazine and a magazine head, with a number of drawer stops in position.

My invention is described as follows The numeral 1 represents the frame of the machine proper which comprises a base plate 2, of preferably square form having a standard 3 securely mounted on its upper face and terminating at its upper end in a guide head 4. A plunger rod 5, upper end with a plunger 6 adapted to work in the guide head of said standard, works through said base plate. The lower portion of said plunger rod is made in two sections adjustably secured together by suitable means, and is secured between and near the inner ends'of two treadle arms 7, pivoted at their inner ends to a bracket 8. The free ends of said treadle arms are provided with a shoe or foot plate 9.

A spring 10 is hooked at its upper end by a suitable hook 11, to the under face of said base plate 2, and is provided at its lower hooked end with a chain 12, connected at its lower end by suitable means to said treadle arms 7. A bed screw 13 having a circular nut 14, provided in its periphery with a number of vertical recesses, works vertically through said base plate 2 of said frame 1, at a point adjacent and opposite the front face of said standard. A horizontally provided at its disposed lever 15 having a circular turn-.

ing end 16 adapted to fit around said nut 14 is adapted to be keyed to said nut 14, by a vertical pin 17, adapted to fit in one of the vertical recesses in said nut and a corresponding recess in the turning end of said lever. The upper end of said screw works against the under face of the clamping plate said plate 18 fitting and working at its rear end in a vertical slot 19 in the front face of said standard below said guide head. 20 represents a horizontal guide tube which is adjustably secured by a set screw 21 to a horizontal bearing 22, secured to one of the outer faces of said guide head. 23 represents a magazine which comprisestwo corresponding horizontal oppositely-disposed rods connected together at their front ends and secured to said standard at their inner ends opposite the said horizontal tube 20, the opposed faces of the rods being recessed at their rear ends as shown to provide a discharge opening 23 through which the drawer stops escape from the magazine. The magazine head 24 is slidably mounted on said tube 20 and is provided on its outer face with a transverse arm 24 terminating in a vertical feed finger 24 adapted to work between the horizontal rods of said magazine 23. Said magazine head is also provided with a vertical finger 25 which works in a longitudinal slot of appropriate length in said tube 20. One end of a cord 26 or other suitable flexible element is led through the tube 20 and attached to the finger 25 on the horizontal tube 20, and is secured to said finger 25 ofv said magazine head 24. A suitable weight 27 is secured to the opposite or free end of said cord. The horizontal gage 28 is adjustably secured to the slot in said standard above said clamping plate by a set screw 29 working in one of the outer faces of said standard, the purpose of which will be disclosed. 30 representsa series of drawer stops which are placed between said horizontal, rods of said magazine 23.

The operation of my invention is as follows: Said vertical pin 17 is removed from engagement with the turning end of said lever 15 and nut 14 and the turning until said drawer rail is clamped between said magazine 23 and clamping plate 18. The drawer-rail may be placed in any desired position on said clamping plate 18' by adjusting said gage 28. The turning end of said lever is then again secured to said .nut 14 by said vertical pin 17 in such a position that the lever is immediately under and parallel with said magazine. When in this position, a slight turn of the lever clamps and releases the drawer rail in which the drawer stop is to be inserted.

When the drawer rail is clamped in the desired position, pressure is applied to the foot plate 9, causing said plunger 6 to move downward in said guide head 4 and press one of said drawer sto s 30 downward through the magazine discharge opening 23 and in the drawer rail. The stops are fed rearwardly in the magazine under the action of the sliding head 24 which in turn is moved by the weight 27, as will be understood.

A set screw 31 works under and between said treadle arms 7 and is so adjusted that its head engages with a square steel plate 32 screwed to the floor, when the drawer stop is in position in the drawer rail, relieving the mechanism from all strain and determining the amount of movement irn arted to the plunger in the operation of riving the stops.

From the foregoing description in connection with the drawings, the construction and operation of my invention will be understood without a more extended explanation.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 2 1. In a machine of the character described, a magazine for holding stops, a support 7 therefor, a plunger, supporting and operating means for the same, said magazine comprising two substantially parallel rods pro vided with an abutment, notches in the inner sides of said rods and adjacent to said abutment, and means for yieldingly holding the stops against said abutment in position to be driven between said notches by said plunger.

2. In a machine of the character described, a plunger, operating means and a supporting standard for the same, a magazine for holding sto s consisting of a pair of substantially paralle rods with their inner ends embedded in said standard, notches in the inner sides of said rods and adjacent to said standard, and means to hold the stops yieldingly against said standard in position to be driven between said notches by said plunger.

3. In a magazine of the character 'described, a plunger, a magazine for holding stops, a supporting standard for the same, said magazine consisting of a pair of bars having notches between which the stops may be driven by said plunger, and means for feeding said stops along said rods, said means consisting of a finger adapted to pass between said rods, and operating mechanism for said feeding finger.

1.- In a machine of the character described, a plunger, a magazine for holding saidmagazine consisting of a pair of bars having notches between which the stops may be driven by said plunger, a guide parallel to said rods, a collar or head slidable on said guide, a finger fastened to said collar and projecting between said rods, and flexible means attached to said head for causing the same'to move to feed the stop along the magazine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HERMAN H. BORGERDING.

Witnesses:

JOSEPH S. FOLEY, DOROTHY MERL.

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